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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'I can&apos;t take the courses I need to take!',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2018/05/22.jpg" alt="Houses along a bike path, but not the bike path near my complex" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="card">
	<h2>Credit card bill</h2>
	<p>
		I really didn&apos;t have time to deal with that credit card bill today, but I knew if I didn&apos;t pay it now, I&apos;d end up putting it off longer and probably paying it late.
		The bill credit should have posted by now, so I went in to pay the rest of the bill before running my regular Tuesday errands on the other side of town.
		Now can be done with this card forever and go back to using reasonable cards: my Discover and Chase credit cards.
		It&apos;s a shame the credit card offered by my credit union is managed on a separate website that maliciously discriminates against $a[Tor] users instead of the main credit union website that doesn&apos;t.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My academic advisor is a dumb ass.
	</p>
	<p>
		I wrote to them about two things yesterday.
		First, they&apos;d asked me to pay my tuition.
		I&apos;ve already sent that though; it takes time to go through the mail.
		If they allowed us to pay early, I&apos;d probably do that.
		Likewise, if they accepted credit cards via a non-PayPal payment processor, I&apos;d <strong>*definitely*</strong> pay online.
		However, neither is the case.
		So just about every term, the school tells me the payment option has become available, I go get a cashier&apos;s check and send it to them, then my academic advisor complains that I haven&apos;t paid yet.
		So I let them know I&apos;ve already sent the money and they&apos;ll have to wait for the post office.
		Second, while I was writing to them anyway, I wrote to them about the missing link to the student portal and asked where to find said student portal.
	</p>
	<p>
		They sent me two letters today.
		The first warned me that since I hadn&apos;t already registered for courses (It&apos;d been, what, <strong>*one*</strong> day!?), I should apply for a leave of absence if I wasn&apos;t going to attend courses next term.
		It was pretty clear they hadn&apos;t read my letter, and were likely sending this without even seeing I&apos;d sent them anything.
		They just so happened to include the link to the student portal though, saying that that was the place to register for a leave of absence.
		Wrong context, but I&apos;ll take the link none the less.
		The second letter came later, and showed my academic advisor has no reading comprehension skills.
		At first, this advisor seemed great, but as time goes on, they seem to get stupider and stupider, to the point where now, I really have no respect for them any more.
		They asked about the details of my online payment (when I told them I&apos;d sent the payment via post) so they could confirm it, then informed me I&apos;d need to go to the student portal to register for courses.
		Of course, they provided no link to the portal.
		I&apos;d said in my initial letter that I needed a link to the student portal to register for courses, so if they&apos;d had any reading skills, they should be well aware that I was aware I needed to go to the student portal; I just didn&apos;t have the $a[URI] for it.
	</p>
	<p>
		Anyway, my current courses remaining are the following:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li>
			<span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Data Structures">CS 3303</span>
			<ul>
				<li>
					<span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Analysis of Algorithms">CS 3304</span>
					<ul>
						<li>
							<span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Data Mining and Machine Learning">CS 4407</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>
							<ul>
								<li>
									<span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Artificial Intelligence">CS 4408</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>
								</li>
							</ul>
						</li>
						<li>
							<span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Computer Graphics">CS 4406</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>
						</li>
					</ul>
				</li>
				<li>
					<span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Information Retrieval">CS 3308</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>
				</li>
			</ul>
		</li>
		<li>
			<span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Advanced Networking and Data Security">CS 4404</span>
		</li>
		<li>
			All of these: <span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>, <span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Mobile Applications">CS 4405</span>, <span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Operating Systems 2">CS 3307</span>, <span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Software Engineering 2">CS 4403</span>, <span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Comparative Programming Languages">CS 4402</span>, <span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Databases 2">CS 3306</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>, <span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Calculus">MATH 1211</span>, <span class="needed-for-associate" title="Introduction to Statistics">MATH 1280</span><em title="(proctored course)">*</em>, <span class="needed-for-bachelor" title="Discrete Mathematics">MATH 1302</span>
		</li>
		<li>
			<span class="needed-for-bachelor">One of these</span>: <span title="Introduction to Economics">ECON 1580</span>, <span title="Introduction to Human Psychology">PSYC 1111</span>, <span title="Emotional Intelligence">PSYC 1205</span>, <span title="Introduction to Psychology">PSYC 1504</span>, <span title="Introduction to Sociology">SOC 1502</span>
		</li>
		<li>
			<span class="needed-for-associate">One</span> (<span class="needed-for-bachelor">two</span>) of these: <span title="Art History">AHIST 1401</span>, <span title="World Literature">ENGL 1405</span>, <span title="Introduction to Philosophy">PHIL 1402</span>
		</li>
		<li>
			<span class="needed-for-associate">One</span> (<span class="needed-for-bachelor">four</span>) electives
		</li>
	</ul>
	<p>
		I&apos;d <a href="https://y.st./en/weblog/2018/02-February/19.xhtml#drudgery">planned</a> to take <span title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span> and <span title="Introduction to Statistics">MATH 1280</span> this term.
		However, it seem the stupid university won&apos;t let me take <span title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span>.
		I&apos;m currently enrolled as an associate degree student, while <span title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span> is a bachelor degree course.
		I need an elective though.
		My plan was to take <span title="Web Programming 2">CS 3305</span> as an elective now, then I&apos;d have it done when I started working on my bachelor degree.
		Instead, the only elective I can take now to use as a required course later is one of the either/or type courses.
		There&apos;s three in the set, and while I need one for the associate degree, I need two for the bachelor degree, so I&apos;m able to take the second one now as an elective.
		I&apos;ll take both of these courses, <span title="World Literature">ENGL 1405</span> and <span title="Introduction to Philosophy">PHIL 1402</span>, in the coming term.
		<span title="Introduction to Statistics">MATH 1280</span> will wait until next term.
		The school screwed me over in my second term here, resulting in my only being able to take one course that term.
		After next term, I&apos;ll have one course left to take before switching student types, so I&apos;ll need a course to pair with it.
		I guess I&apos;ll have to stupidly burn another elective that term.
		I&apos;ll see what options are available.
		I&apos;m not at all happy about this though.
		It&apos;s an undeniable fact that I won&apos;t be able to use the course slot productively; the school won&apos;t let me.
	</p>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I agree, that&apos;s very disappointing to hear a disaster response plan isn&apos;t in place, especially when the idea that one should be has already been presented.
			Energy efficiency is indeed an important step; I&apos;d say making the existing power green though is more important.
			Gasoline-powered generators are probably a bigger threat than energy-hungry devices.
			That said, it&apos;s sort of a multiplication problem.
			Shrink either the harm done through energy generation or the amount of energy used, and you&apos;ll shrink the amount of harm done.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
END
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